Ask HN: Why use semicolons to terminate statements in modern JavaScript or ActionScript?

Re:Ask HN: Why use semicolons to terminate statements in mod... by timknauf on Monday November 24, 2008 @05:45AM (#374668)

Interesting. I hadn't come across that idiom before. In Python, you'll have things like:

  myLongList = [1, 2, 3,
                4, 5, 6,
                7, 8, 9]

No continuation character is needed, because the continuation is implied.

However, I can't think of a direct parallel to your example above. It looks handy. What API/language are you alluding to?

I guess the Pythonic way would be something like:

  win = Window(title = "A new window",
               foreground = "Red",
               background = "White",
               menuBar = [fileMenu, viewMenu, helpMenu])

But I disgress. :^)

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Re:Ask HN: Why use semicolons to terminate statements in mod... by sc on Monday November 24, 2008 @08:13AM (#374754)

JavaScript can just as easily attain this way of using named parameters:

  win = Window.new({title: "A new window",
                    foreground: Red,
                    background: White,
                    menuBar: [fileMenu, viewMenu, helpMenu]});

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Re:Ask HN: Why use semicolons to terminate statements in mod... by cabalamat on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @03:13AM (#376161)

What API/language are you alluding to?

As i said before: no particular language.

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